The Lying Counselor’s Eloquent Reasoning - Chapter 49

After returning home from the counseling room, Moeka straight away tested the pack that Uroma had given her later that night. Although it was said to be soaked in a special serum, it felt quite ordinary. After all, it only gave the skin a beautiful appearance. Not expecting too much, she went to bed and drifted off to sleep.

Yet by the next morning, Moeka’s face had changed drastically. Upon rising from the bed, she promptly stripped off the pack and examined her face in the nearby stand mirror, only to discover that the ugly girl with the narrow eyes was no more in sight. Instead of the ugly girl with the narrow eyes, what she saw was a perfect beauty with wide round eyes, pure white skin, and a small face like a model. This was precisely the ideal face that Moeka had been posting on social media for so long. Though Uroma ridiculed it as an alien.

“Wow! Everything that guy said was true!”

Moeka flew into a frenzy. Then, still in her pajamas, she swiftly left her room to show each family member her reborn face. The time was 6:30 in the morning. Moeka’s family consisted of her parents, Moeka and her younger brother, living in a 4LDK apartment. It was a standard middle-class family. Firstly, she stormed into the room of her younger brother, who was in the second year of junior high school, shook him awake when he was still lying in bed, and asked him, “How do I look today? Aren’t I cute?”. He replied sleepily, “Yes, you look cute,” and quickly pulled the covers over his head. Even though he didn’t seem to be paying attention to his sister’s transformation, Moeka was very satisfied with the “cute” feedback she received.

Later, in the living room, her mother was just setting breakfast for the four of them on the table. She also spotted her father sitting on the sofa reading the morning newspaper.

“Hey, how do I look today? Aren’t I cute?”

Lately, things between her parents and her had been rocky, and she hadn’t spoken to them much, but today, the details were irrelevant. She asked them with excitement.

“What do you mean…?”

They looked at Moeka’s face and seemed momentarily puzzled.

“Right. You look adorable today, Moeka.”

“Yes, I agree, you look great.”

They immediately smiled and nodded at each other.

“I see, seriously, I’ve finally started…’”

She couldn’t stop grinning. This beauty pack really worked wonders. Her face had transformed dramatically in a single night. It was like being reborn as a new person. Farewell to the ugly me of yesterday!

Then, for the first time in a long time, Moeka attended high school. Her complex about her face had grown so extreme that she hadn’t been going to school lately. At her high school, it was forbidden to wear flashy make-up or sunglasses that would make her eyes look bigger, and her teachers strongly advised her not to wear a mask unless she was sick. However, Moeka was not willing to tolerate such things. Exposing her no-makeup, uncensored, ugly face to everyone was unthinkable.

But that humiliation ended today. Even with no makeup and no modifications, her face was reborn as a super cute face.

“Good morning, everyone!”

Once in the classroom, she greeted her classmates cheerfully.

“Moeka! It’s been a while!”

“You’re back on your feet. I’m glad you’re feeling better.”

Immediately, several girls who were good friends of hers came running up to her. She had told them that she had been absent from school recently due to sickness.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to worry you. I’m fine now. What do you think? How do I look today?”

Moeka quickly presented her reborn face to her friends.

“Yes. You look super cute today, Moeka.”

“I think you look better than before.”

Her friends seemed to sincerely congratulate Moeka on her beautiful rebirth.

Furthermore.

“I’m really relieved that you’re feeling better.”

“We missed you so much!”

The warm words were thrown at her over and over again. Moeka’s heart was flooded with emotion. Oh my god, I’m so loved. Friendship is truly the best.

From then until after school, she was in a wonderful mood. During the breaks between classes, she took selfies with her phone as usual and uploaded them to social networking sites. However, there was no point in modifying the images anymore. The perfect beautiful girl’s face that she had been creating was now her own face. All she had to do was to snap a normal selfie with her smartphone and add hashtags such as “no processing selfie,” “no makeup JK,” “uncensored selfie,” and “barefaced exposed”. She wished as many people as possible could have a look at her reborn face.

The response from her followers was unexpectedly high. They all said, “This is uncensored without any makeup? Nice!”, “I knew my Moe Moe didn’t need to be modified”, “Moe Moe, seriously, marry me”. Furthermore, there were many “I like it!” comments. The number of followers, which had been stagnant for a long time, began to increase visibly. Incidentally, “Moe Moe” was the nickname used by about 600 of Moeka’s SNS followers.

I was right, this face now is definitely more natural and cute than the face produced by image modification… Moeka felt very happy. The heavy and bitter feeling in her chest seemed to have vanished into thin air.